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Last two decades, the problem of robotic mapping has made a lot of progress in the research community. However, since the data provided by the sensor still contains noise, how to obtain an accurate map is still an open problem. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Han Wu , Zhi Yan

In-camera light scattering is a typical form of non-systematic interference in indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras, primarily caused by multiple reflections and optical path variations within the camera body. This effect can…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yansong Du , Jingtong Yao , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Zhaoxiang Jiang , Xun Guan

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors efficiently capture scene depth, but the nonlinear depth construction procedure often results in extremely large noise variance or even invalid areas. Recent methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Changyong He , Jin Zeng , Jiawei Zhang , Jiajie Guo

3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging is used in a variety of applications such as augmented reality (AR), computer interfaces, robotics and autonomous systems. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are one of the enabling technologies providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Germán Mora-Martín , Alex Turpin , Alice Ruget , Abderrahim Halimi , Robert Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensing camera is able to obtain depth maps at a high frame rate. However, its low resolution and sensitivity to the noise are always a concern. A popular solution is upsampling the obtained noisy low resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Wei Liu , Yijun Li , Xiaogang Chen , Jie Yang , Qiang Wu , Jingyi Yu

Restoring images distorted by atmospheric turbulence is a ubiquitous problem in long-range imaging applications. While existing deep-learning-based methods have demonstrated promising results in specific testing conditions, they suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xingguang Zhang , Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

Indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras are a promising depth sensing technology. However, they are prone to errors caused by multi-path interference (MPI) and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Traditional methods, after denoising, mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Huaijin Chen , Mohit Gupta , Andreas Velten , Jinwei Gu

We address the task of aligning CAD models to a video sequence of a complex scene containing multiple objects. Our method can process arbitrary videos and fully automatically recover the 9 DoF pose for each object appearing in it, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Stefan Popov , Matthias Nießner , Vittorio Ferrari

Time-of-Flight non-line-of-sight (ToF NLOS) imaging techniques provide state-of-the-art reconstructions of scenes hidden around corners by inverting the optical path of indirect photons scattered by visible surfaces and measured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Julio Marco , Adrian Jarabo , Ji Hyun Nam , Alberto Tosi , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten

We propose a novel compressed sensing method to improve the depth reconstruction accuracy and multi-target separation capability of indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) systems. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on hardware modifications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yansong Du , Yutong Deng , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Bangyao Wang , Zhancong Xu , Zhaoxiang Jiang , Xun Guan

Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Julian Ost , Tanushree Banerjee , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors provide an imaging modality fueling diverse applications, including LiDAR in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Conventional ToF imaging methods estimate the depth by sending pulses of light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

In recent years, computational Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging has emerged as an exciting and a novel imaging modality that offers new and powerful interpretations of natural scenes, with applications extending to 3D, light-in-flight, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari

Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Achuta Kadambi , Vage Taamazyan , Suren Jayasuriya , Ramesh Raskar

We aim to recover the geometry of 3D parametric scenes using very few depth measurements from low-cost, commercially available time-of-flight sensors. These sensors offer very low spatial resolution (i.e., a single pixel), but image a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Carter Sifferman , Yiquan Li , Yiming Li , Fangzhou Mu , Michael Gleicher , Mohit Gupta , Yin Li

Optical aberrations prevent telescopes from reaching their theoretical diffraction limit. Once estimated, these aberrations can be compensated for using deformable mirrors in a closed loop. Focal plane wavefront sensing enables the…

The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects occluded from the camera's field of view using multiply scattered light. Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of two-bounce (2B) NLOS imaging by scanning a laser and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siddharth Somasundaram , Akshat Dave , Connor Henley , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

Sparse active illumination enables precise time-of-flight depth sensing as it maximizes signal-to-noise ratio for low power budgets. However, depth completion is required to produce dense depth maps for 3D perception. We address this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xiaowen Jiang , Valerio Cambareri , Gianluca Agresti , Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu , Adriano Simonetto , Fabien Cardinaux , Pietro Zanuttigh

A time-of-flight (ToF) imaging system is proposed and its working principle demonstrated. To realize this system, a new device, a free-space optical mixer, is designed and fabricated. A scene is illuminated (flashed) with a megahertz level…

The modulation transfer function (MTF) is widely used to characterise the performance of optical systems. Measuring it is costly and it is thus rarely available for a given lens specimen. Instead, MTFs based on simulations or, at best, MTFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Matthias Bauer , Valentin Volchkov , Michael Hirsch , Bernhard Schölkopf